Oil Springs (also Medina) is an
unincorporated community
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in
Johnson County,
Kentucky
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, United States. It lies along
Route 40 west of the city of
Paintsville, the
county seat
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of Johnson County. It has a
post office
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with the
ZIP code 41238.
History
Oil Springs takes its name from the natural oil springs discovered in Johnson County. The springs once fed a popular health resort.
The first post office was established on January 29, 1868, with Hamilton Litteral as postmaster. It was also known as Medina for a short time after the Medina Seminary, which was a
boarding school
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that was established there in the 1870s by John Riggs Long.
[ Retrieved on 2009-12-22]
Geography
Its elevation is 833 feet (254 m).
Demographics
As of the 2000 census, there were 851 people, 340 households, and 267 families residing in the
ZIP Code Tabulation Area
ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) are statistical entities developed by the United States Census Bureau for tabulating summary statistics. These were introduced with the Census 2000 and continued with the 2010 Census and 5 year American Community S ...
for Oil Spring's
ZIP code.
The racial makeup of the community is 99.9% White and 0.1% African American.
There were 340 households, out of which 34.7% had children under the age of 18, 67.6% were married couples living together, 8.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.5% were non-families. 20.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 2.87.
The median income for a household in the ZCTA was $30,750, and the median income for a family was $33,250. Males had a median income of $44,875 and $30,781 for females. The per capita income was $15,066. 22.9% of the families in the community were below the poverty line.
Education
Most students residing in Oil Springs attend:
Johnson County Schools
Retrieved on 2009-06-01
Highland Elementary School
in Staffordsville (kindergarten-sixth grade)
* Johnson County Middle School in Paintsville (seventh-eighth grade)
* Johnson Central High School in Paintsville (ninth-twelfth grade)
See also
* Oil Springs Methodist Church
References
Unincorporated communities in Johnson County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky
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